Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Chief Logan and Others, sentence 9
This chief lost an eye in a battle and was then deprived of his position, as a chief must be physically perfect.
Who acts: chief · What happens: lose, deprive, be · To what, where: eye, battle
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Chief Logan and Others. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 eye | det |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 battle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 battle | det |
| 8 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 deprived | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 deprived | aux:pass |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 deprived | advmod |
| 12 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lost | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 position | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 position | nmod:poss |
| 15 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deprived | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 perfect | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 perfect | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 chief | det |
| 19 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 perfect | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 perfect | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 perfect | cop |
| 22 | physically | physically | ADV | _ | 23 perfect | advmod |
| 23 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deprived | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | this chief | a eye | a battle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | deprive | past · passive | this chief not said here | then | of chief's position | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: of position=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | must | a chief | perfect, physically property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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